Author Archives: Steve Lash

Steve Lash covers federal and Maryland appellate courts and the General Assembly’s judiciary committees for The Daily Record.
He joined the newspaper in 2008 after spending nearly 20 years covering the U.S. Supreme Court and legal affairs for several publications, including the Houston Chronicle, Cox Newspapers, Chicago Daily Law Bulletin and West’s Legal News.
Lash, a graduate of American University’s Washington College of Law, is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court and Maryland bars.

ANNAPOLIS — Legalizing recreational marijuana will be a topic of discussion during the 2019 General Assembly, which opens at noon Wednesday, with the fate of legislation on the subject much in doubt, according to the legislature’s leaders. House Speaker Michael ...

ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Larry Hogan on Wednesday called on Maryland legislators to enact mandatory minimum sentences on repeat violent offenders as part of an effort to reduce the more than 300 slayings that have afflicted Baltimore in each of the ...

It might be hard, at least for a while, to identify many of the members of the incoming General Assembly without a scorecard. The 2019 session will see 60 new members — the vast majority in the House of Delegates ...

ANNAPOLIS — Maryland’s top court has ordered that a young Guatemalan immigrant be permitted to remain with his uncle in Lanham while applying for special U.S. residency status and likely citizenship. In its three-page order Friday, the Court of Appeals ...

ANNAPOLIS – The Democratic co-chair of the Republican governor’s commission to redraw a western Maryland congressional district found to be unconstitutionally partisan toward Democrats urged the panel’s members Friday to fairly, independently and transparently create a model district against partisan ...

Setting the stage for a potential landmark ruling, the Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review a lower court decision striking down a congressional district in western Maryland as having been drawn with such a partisan bias by the state’s ...

A 1970s-era law to protect independent gas station owners financially against their big oil company suppliers provides no safeguard when the alleged price gouger is the middleman delivering the fuel, Maryland’s second highest court ruled Wednesday in calling the 40-year-old ...

Two judges and five lawyers have applied for a seat on Maryland’s top court. Hoping to succeed retired Court of Appeals Judge Sally D. Adkins are Court of Special Appeals Judge Christopher B. Kehoe; Dorchester County Circuit Judge Brett W. ...

Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh and the Trump administration have found something they agree on: The U.S. Supreme Court should overturn a decision that a 40-foot cross erected as a war memorial in Bladensburg violates the constitutional separation of ...